Peter Dorman received his PhD. from the University of Chicago in 1985 and is currently the president of the American University of Beirut. President Dorman has received numerous research grants and is the author and editor of several major books and many articles on the study of ancient Egypt.

PUBLICATIONS

Coauthor of Sacred Space and Sacred Function in Ancient Thebes (Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization) (2007); Perspectives on Ptolemaic Thebes: Occasional Proceedings of the Theban Workshop (Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization) (2011); The Pyramid of Senwosret I: The South Cemeteries of Lisht (2012), among others.

Akhenaten, king (1353–36 bce) of ancient Egypt of the 18th dynasty, who established a new cult dedicated to the Aton, the sun’s disk (hence his assumed name, Akhenaten, meaning “beneficial to Aton”). Few scholars now agree with the contention that Amenhotep III associated his son Amenhotep IV on...

This volume presents a series of papers delivered at a two-day session of the Theban Workshop held at the British Museum in September 2003. Due to its political and religious prominence throughout much of pharaonic history, the region of ancient Thebes offers scholars a wealth of monuments whose physical remains and extant iconography may be combined with textual sources and archaeological finds in ways that elucidate the function of sacred space as initially conceived, and which also reveal adaptations...

The manuscript consists of seven papers presented at the Theban Workshop, 2006. Within the temporal and spatial boundaries indicated by the title, the subjects of the papers are extremely diverse, ranging from models of culture-history (Manning and Moyer), to studies of specific administrative offices (Arlt), a single statue type (Albersmeier), inscriptions in a single temple (DiCerbo/Jasnow, and McClain), and inscriptions of a single king (Ritner). Nonetheless, all the papers are significant contributions...